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The Leader in the Solar Integration Sector.

Acro Energy (ART:V) is positioning itself to become a National Brand in the Solar Integration Business.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.feature/id/1736

Acro Energy (ART:TSXV) is a California Solar Integration company.

They are now the 5th largest residential installer in California and within the top ten in the country. During the last twelve months the market in which they compete has changed dramatically, for the better:
• Panel pricing has declined by 50%. When they were bidding on jobs in the summer of ‘08 they typically bid $8 watt and fully one-half of that amount was the cost of the panel. The panel prices have dropped to the $2 range with “no-name” Chinese brands available at $1.50/watt. They expect to pay less than $1.50/watt for brand name panels (Suntech, Sharp etc) in 2010.
• They have recently signed a partnership agreement with SunRun to provide 100% financing to our customers, in any state that we chose to operate. As you could imagine, financing a solar system is the single biggest problem in the industry – problem solved on their end.
• They now have a plan to bring solar to the middle class with a product that can now be sold over the phone. 2010 is going to mark the mass adoption of solar.
• Their management team is now complete with industry leading talent http://acroenergy.com/investors/company-officers/. President, Nat Kreamer founded SunRun Solar and raised $110 million for the company, is one of the most respected names in the Solar industry.
• After a comprehensive rebranding process the management team has built a platform in operations and marketing that is ready for scale.
• Solar Panel manufacturers are looking to integrate vertically within the next eighteen to twenty-four months as their product becomes commoditized. Their targets are, and will continue to be, solar integration companies. First Solar has taken over DT Solar and invested $25 million in SolarCity. SunPower has taken over Solar Sales in Australia and Solar Solutions in Italy. LDK has recently taken an equity stake in Solar Green Technology SpA. Itochu recently purchased Solarnet and Trina, Yingli and others are all looking to take equity stakes in Solar Integrators. Solar integrators are quietly getting a lot of attention from the Panel Manufacturers, Bankers and Private Equity as they look to have the highest ROI going forward with them being natural takeovers in mind.
• Acro has a great management team (own 65% of the company - 23 million shares out), vision and operations.